p3:Kirito: It’s not that I don’t trust your skill with a blade…. / but could you just support me here?

Leafa: Huh?Kirito: I want you behind me, as a healer.

Kirito: And that way, I can fight however I want…

Leafa: ……… / Okay.SFX: Nod

p4-5:Leafa: !

p6:Leafa: A shield in their right hands, and a mace in their left… / Is everyone in their front line a southpaw? Or…

p7-8: <no text>

p9:Leafa: They withstood Kirito’s first blow?! / But then….

p10-11:Leafa: Kirito-kun!!

p12:Box: This band knows how Kirito attacks. / They know he puts tremendous physical force behind his strikes and have prepared countermeasures…!

p13: Box: The three heavily armored fighters in the front do not attack directly, but focus on using their massive shields to protect their bodies.

The other nine are all mages. / Some focus on healing the front line, / while the rest use arced fire magic to attack.

This is a formation designed to defeat physical-attacking bosses.

p14:Leafa: But why would they bring so many people / to attack me and Kirito?

Kirito: …….I get it.

p15:Kirito: Whooaahh!Box: ---It’s useless. / Any damage Kirito can inflict on the front line will soon be healed by the mages.

The remaining mages will them strike him with their magic. / And that process will continue

until either the mages’ MP or Kirito’s HP runs dry. / But which will win out is clear.

Leafa: I hate this patterned combat…Box: Individual technique is irrelevant.

p16:Box: It’s just a battle of numbers, / played out through the game system.

p17:Leafa: ……..Ss!

p18:Enough, Kirito-kun.

SFX: Clench….We’ll just have to spend a few hours retracing our flight from Sylvain.

p19: Leafa: This is just a game.Bubble: Any items we lose to the Death Penalty, / we can always rebuy.

I hate losing, / but there’s some things you can’t do within the system.

And besides…(bubble): So please, / just…I can’t…

I can’t bear to watch you be wounded again and again and again, Kirito-kun!Just give up……!!

p20:Kirito: Never.

p21:Kirito: So long as I still draw breath, no party member of mine shall die. / That will never, / ever happen.

p22:Ohhhhhhhhh!

p23:Ohhhh / Ohhhhhh!

Salamanders: ….Kch!!

p24: This game / is just for fun.

So death in the game

is just a facsimile of death. / Every player has grown accustomed to the moment of its arrival.

p25:However, Kirito-kun / fights against the system / and is earnestly seeking a path of survival…

in this virtual world!!

p26:Wh… / What’s with this guy?!

Ohhhhhh!

Leafa: Amazing…!

Leafa: I’ve never seen a fighting style like this, / where one gets close to his enemies and overcomes their defenses without the use of magic.

This is our only chance!

p27:Leafa: Chance to do what…..?Yui: The only thing I am uncertain of is the opposing players’ psychological states.

Yui: Please, use all of your remaining MP / to somehow block their next magical attack.

Leafa: B—But, / if I do that, then…

p28:I’ll join you,Kirito-kun!

Until the very end, / Kirito-kun, I too…

p29:I too will fight!

Papa, now!

p30:Leafa: !

Leafa: Isn’t this incantation… / for illusion magic?!

p31:Leafa: Kirito-kun!Box: This illusionary magic

makes a player’s outward appearance become that of a monster. / However, this magic is not useful in combat.

Not just one’s attack skill levels, but even the form of the monster you transform into is random. One could even become the weakest monster in the game. / Furthermore, your current status would remain unchanged. / This makes it largely unsuitable for—